Michigan, Indiana, and Maryland Suffrage Research

Course Specific Resources

Newspapers:

 

Hoosier State Chronicles, Indiana's statewide historical newspaper project 

 

Digital Michigan Newspapers

 

Newspapers.com -  Much stronger in Indiana than the others. 

 

 Chronicling America  -  Better for Maryland than the others. 

Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922 - Mostly 19th Century includes African American Newspapers.  

   

Other Sources:

 

Ancestry.com: for census and other genealogical information 

 

Find a Grave for gravestone (and other) information 

 

Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000

 

 

 

 Books:

 

Via Hathi Trust    

 

History of Woman Suffrage Vol. 6 / by NAWSA, e.d. Ida Husted Harper - This volume of the multi volume set includes chapters on each state

 

History of Suffrage in Michigan / by Mary Joice Adams

 

Via  Dissertations & Theses Global

 

Some aspects of the woman suffrage movement in Indiana / by L. Alene Sloan.

 

Maryland women and the transformation of politics, 1890s-1930 / by Diane Weaver